March 18th '06-Swimming and Yen
As I write this I realize that we've lost a day somewhere. We had to be at the airport at 1:30 on Wednesday morning the 15th so it seems like we lost Thursday but since we crossed the international dateline on Wednesday maybe we lost the 15th. If I think about it too hard I just keep going in circles. We've decided to stay in Okinawa since we can't get to Singapore. We considered flying to Tokyo in a couple of days but we don't want to waste another day of our vacation on travel - we're all so tired! And we hear that it's been snowing there and we are packed for equator weather so we'll stay here "in the tropics of Japan."
Today was mostly a logistical day, trying to make sure we have reservations for the next few days on the Airbase at a much more reasonable rate and then visiting an ATM to get some yen. Even though the yen rate is roughly one to one our first experience at the ATM was less than successful. I think it's because they don't use decimal points that we sometimes get confused. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it). We were really lucky that we didn't mistakenly take out a million dollars! In fact, I think we accidentally tried to take out $500 which is over the daily limit. It's a good thing that ATMs spit your card back out at you before continuing with a transaction or the machine may have shredded our card :)
Robert is completely fascinated with yen. It seems to be the only souvenir that he wants at this point. We'll see how long that lasts. Anyway, we had to confiscate some of the coins because we needed to use them! Our biggest coin is a dollar, but theirs is a 500 yen coin which is worth about $5 depending on the day.
In the afternoon we relaxed by taking advantage of the hotel's beautiful indoor pool.
Today was mostly a logistical day, trying to make sure we have reservations for the next few days on the Airbase at a much more reasonable rate and then visiting an ATM to get some yen. Even though the yen rate is roughly one to one our first experience at the ATM was less than successful. I think it's because they don't use decimal points that we sometimes get confused. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it). We were really lucky that we didn't mistakenly take out a million dollars! In fact, I think we accidentally tried to take out $500 which is over the daily limit. It's a good thing that ATMs spit your card back out at you before continuing with a transaction or the machine may have shredded our card :)
Robert is completely fascinated with yen. It seems to be the only souvenir that he wants at this point. We'll see how long that lasts. Anyway, we had to confiscate some of the coins because we needed to use them! Our biggest coin is a dollar, but theirs is a 500 yen coin which is worth about $5 depending on the day.
In the afternoon we relaxed by taking advantage of the hotel's beautiful indoor pool.
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